How a single viral protein hijacks immune cells to supercharge COVID-19 infection

In the sickest COVID-19 patients, SARS-CoV-2 doesn't just cause severe damage by directly infecting airway cells. The virus ...

AI system tracks rehabilitation exercises on simple devices

A lightweight artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to assess rehabilitation exercises in real time could make ...

A single protein may help aggressive breast cancer spread to the brain and evade immune defenses

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have identified a protein that may help an aggressive form of breast cancer spread to the brain and escape the body's immune defenses.

Large study finds no added risk of rare artery tear following chiropractic neck care

Getting your neck adjusted by a chiropractor does not appear to raise the risk of a rare but serious artery injury, according to a large observational study from a multidisciplinary collaboration ...

Small study suggests around half of US teens witness online harm, and around a third have been targeted

A survey of 472 US adolescents across 47 states found 44.7% had witnessed online harassment and 29.8% had experienced it directly in the past four weeks. Perhaps surprisingly, the same proportion of ...

Strength training not tied to ventricular arrhythmia in those with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

Strength training is not linked to ventricular arrhythmia for people living with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), according to a study published online Sept. 10 in JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology ...

Human brain is two separate organs, research finds

For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine ...

Gene that drives blood cancer drug resistance uncovered with new CRISPR activation tool

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown gene that causes resistance to a leading blood cancer drug, as well as several genes that accelerate lymphoma growth, using a powerful new CRISPR ...

AI reads doctors' notes at scale, revealing data absent from coded medical records

Every time a person sees a doctor, the visit produces two kinds of records. There are the tidy checkbox fields: the billing codes, the lab values, the prescription entries. And there is the note the ...

Screening method identifies leukemia drug candidates from more than 4 million compounds

A cancer cell behaves differently from a healthy cell, with unique features that enable rapid growth and bypass quality controls. Rice University's Natasha Kirienko is interested in finding these ...

Brain circuit linked to food cravings during pregnancy identified

Why do food cravings become so strong during pregnancy? Researchers at LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center, in collaboration with colleagues, have identified a brain mechanism that may help ...

B cells may help predict risk of colitis from immunotherapy

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a previously unknown role for B cells, adaptive immune cells, in triggering and sustaining colitis as a side effect of ...